Books in English

• Bernard, Donald R. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN MANJIRO. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
• Blumberg, Rhoda. SHIPWRECKED! : THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF A JAPANESE BOY. NY: Harper Collins, 2001. (for young people).
• Kawada, Shoryo. DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST [Hyoson Kiryaku].Translated by Junya Nagakuni. Edited by Nichibei School. Tosashimizu: Tosa Shimizu Sister City Committee, 1987.
• Kikuoka, Michael. JOHN MUNG'S STORY. Kirihara Shoten, 1981.
• Kaneko, Hisakazu. MANJIRO, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1956.
• NAKAHAMA MANJIRO'S HYOSEN KIRYAKU: A COMPANION BOOK. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1999. Produced for their exhibition "Drifting."
• Warriner, Emily. VOYAGER TO DESTINY. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill,1956.
• Ibuse, M. JOHN MANJIRO, THE CASTAWAY, HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES. Translated by H. Kaneko. Hokuseido Press, 1941.
• The Welcome John Mung Society. See! Sea! She!: the story of John Mung. Tokyo: Sogensha Shuppan Co., 1992. Children's picture book, with both Japanese and English text. Illustrations by Fairhaven artist Arthur Moniz. Available in the United States from the Fairhaven/New Bedford--Tosashimizu Sister-City Committee.
• Crofford, Emily. BORN IN THE YEAR OF COURAGE. Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 1991. Fictionalized account for middle school children.
• Brooke, John M. John M. Brooke's Pacific Cruise and Japanese Adventure, 1858-1860. University of Hawaii Press, 1986. Mentions Nakahama as crew member on one of the trips.
• Brooke, George M. John M. Brooke, Naval Scientist and Educator.University of Virginia, 1980. Same as above.
• Blumberg, Rhoda. Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun.New York: Lothrop, 1985. Children's book, mentions Manjiro.
• Cooper, George, comp. Seamen's Chaplain: reflections on the life of Samuel C. Damon Under the direction of the Damon Family Including Centennial Reflections and Damon Memorial by Samuel C. Damon. Honolulu: Signature Publishing, 1992.
• Damon, Ethel. Samuel Chenery Damon. Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society, 1966. Biography of Manjiro's friend and benefactor in Hawaii.
• Pachter, Marc, ed. Abroad in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1976 (contains a chapter on Manjiro).
• Plummer, Katherine. The Shogun's Reluctant Ambassadors,Oregon Historical Society (contains a chapter on Manjiro).
• Jansen, Marius. Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971. Biography of Manjiro's patron in Japan.
• Smith Bradford. Americans from Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1948. Mentions Nakahama, pp. 12, 13-18, 19, 200, 384.
• Sakamaki, Shunzo. Japan and the United States, 1703-1853.The Transactions of the Asiatic society of Japan. 2nd series, v. XVIII, 1939. Mentions Nakahama, p. 79, 80, 82-86, 147-9, 155-6.

Articles in English

• Tripp, Job C. "A Japanese Student in Fairhaven." inOld Dartmouth Historical Sketches, No. 40: being the proceedings of the meetings of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, held June 17, 1914 and October 14, 1914, 18-19.
• "The Story of Manjiro Nakahama Who Beat the First 'Wave' to Hawaii by 27 Years." Honolulu, June 1968, 34-35.
• Willard, L. F. "New England's Strangest Fourth." Yankee,July 1965, 50.
• Isamu, Yoneku. "Manjiro: the Remarkable Life of a Fisherman's Son (1)." The East, May 1976, 9-21.
• Isamu, Yoneku. "Manjiro: the Remarkable Life of a Fisherman's Son (2)." The East, June 1976, 19-31.

Books in Japanese

• Nagakuni, Junya. The Sea of Great Ambition: an illustrated history of John Manjiro, 1991.
• Nakahama, Hiroshi. My John Manjiro. Shogaku-kan PublishingCo., 1991. (The author is the great-grandson of Manjiro).
• Kawasumi, Tetsuo, ed. Nakahama Manjiro Shusei. Tokyo: Shogakukan,1990.
• Haruna, Toru. Nakahama Manjiro. Kodansha Publishing Co.,1986.
• Kawata, Izuru. Chronology of the Drifters. Kochi: Kochi Citizens' Library, 1986.
• Nagakuni, Junya. John Man. Kochi: Kochi Shimbun, 1982.
• Narita, Kazuo. Life Of John Manjiro. Chunichi Shimbun Publishing Co., 1976.
• Nakahama, Akira. Nakahama Manjiro No Shogai (The Life of Nakahama Manjiro), Tokyo, 1970. (The author was the grandson of Manjiro).
• Ikeda, Norimasa. John Manjiro. Tokyo: Popura-sha, 1940?
• Hashimoto, J. History Of Manjiro Floating Around. Tokyo:Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha, [1939].
• Nakahama, Toichiro. Biography Of Manjiro Nakahama, whowas rescued in 1841 by Captain Whitfield. Tokyo, 1936. (The author was the son of Manjiro).

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